XI Conference – European Congress of Methodology

22 Jul 2025, 09:00 → 25 Jul 2025, 15:00 Atlantic/Canary

África Borges del Rosal (Universidad de La Laguna)

The European Congress of Methodology is organized biennially by the European Association of Methodology (EAM), a society established in 2004, which currently brings together a large number of researchers from all over the world to exchange ideas on developing new methods and on applying new methodologies in empirical research.

Wednesday 23 July

08:30 → 10:00 Session 10 : "Statistical Applications in Social Sciences and Sports"

08:30 Measuring Distance to University in Germany: How Accurate is the Straight-Line Approach?

08:45 Analysis of long-term and feedback effects in individual physical activity patterns

09:00 Labour market participation and Unpaid Care Work in the UK: An Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)

09:15 Improving Scale Properties With a Bifactor Structure: Measuring Work as a Calling

09:30 Q-Matrix Validation with Factor Retention Methods in Cognitive Diagnosis Modeling

09:45 Longitudinal Trajectories of Presenteeism and Absenteeism: The Role of Trait Competitiveness in Early Career Researchers

08:30 → 10:00 Session 2 : "Innovative methods in Measurement and Evaluation"

08:30 Investigating the potential of large language models to streamline psychometric test development

08:45 Towards the adaptation of the learning patterns model in Primary Education: an explanatory study

09:00 Using pictographic single-item measures to overcome psychometric challenges: A pre-registered development and validation of the Meditation Pictographic Scale (MPS)

09:15 Play-Along Interviews: A Child-Centered Method for Research with Children

09:30 Assessment of Problematic Social Networking Sites Use Among Youth and Adolescents

09:45 Setting Stopping Rules for Progressive Tests: A Practical and Transparent Toolkit

08:30 → 10:00 Session 6 : "Structural models and complex data analysis"

08:30 Standard Error Estimation in the Local Structural-After-Measurement (LSAM) Approach

08:45 The Structural-after-Measurement (SAM) approach: updates and extensions.

09:00 A simulation study comparing structural-after-measurement versus traditional approaches to estimate nonlinear e!ects in structural equation modeling

09:15 Extending Log-Logistic IRT: A Multidimensional Model and Its Implementation in R

09:30 Exploring the Consensus Emergence Model as a Tool for Analyzing Intra-Individual Variability in Psychological Development

09:45 Alignment optimization and the sequential testing approach for harmonizing multiple datasets

08:30 → 10:00 Symposium : "Advancing many groups comparisons: Mixture multigroup approach for latent variable analysis"

08:30 Mixture Multigroup Structural Equation Modeling: An empirical application revealing cross-national patterns in how human values predict climate change beliefs

08:45 Extending Mixture Multigroup Structural Equation Modeling to deal with ordinal variables

09:00 Evaluating the Efficacy of Mixture Multigroup Factor Analysis in Handling Non-Normal and Ordinal Data: A Simulation Study

09:15 MixMG-SEM with double mixture modeling to capture similarities in measurement model and in structural relations across many groups

09:30 Evaluating (Mixture) Multigroup Structural Equation Modelling with Exploratory Measurement Models

09:45 Mixture Three-Step Latent Vector Autoregression to Find Individuals With Similar Dynamic Processes

08:30 → 10:00 Symposium : "Mixed methodologies"

08:30 Analysis of the relationship between self-esteem level and interest, importance and learning achievements in highly able students through mixed method design

08:45 Influence of Intelligence and Gender on Mathematics Anxiety: Verbalized Strategies to Overcome Difficulties

09:00 MMR Approach in the Study of Physical Activity, Intelligence, and Gender in Adolescents

09:15 Motives for Lying in Mexican Adolescents

09:30 Multipotentiality in university students and its relationship with gender, high abilities and entrance score

09:45 Subjective perception of Fear of Public Speaking. A mixed-methods research

10:00 → 11:30 Session 11: "Education, Accesibility and Methodological Critique"

10:00 Towards a universal design in Psychometrics: Designing an accessible course for students with visual impairments in an online environment

10:15 Methodological Critique in Science: A Geometric and Algebraic Approach to Evaluating Research Quality

10:30 A Comparison of Crossed-Random Investigations of Educational Leadership in Psychology and Economics

10:45 Instruments for measuring Mathematical Anxiety in the last 10 years: what we know and what we can do.

11:00 Methods of music research and its role in the contemporary context

11:15 Effects of Technology-Enhanced Mathematics Learning: A Raw IPD Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Single-Case Experiments

10:00 → 11:30 Session 12 : "Validity and Reliability in Psychological measurement"

10:00 Person- or situation-specific? Factors explaining convergent validity and discrepancy between self-report and digital trace of smartphone use

10:15 Evaluating the concurrent validity of traditional and alternative measures used in university admission processes in Spain

10:30 Reliability and validity of experimental measures of value-driven attention: a meta-analysis on individual differences studies

10:45 Multiple Imputation of missing values for randomized controlled trials: A step-by-step tutorial using mice

11:15 Protocol for Developing Validation Studies (PROVAL): A Comprehensive Framework and Illustrative Application

10:00 → 11:30 Session 8 : "Psychometric evaluation in forced-choice tests"

10:00 Empirical Evaluation of Psychometric Properties in Forced-Choice Tests: Comparing Binary and Graded Preference Formats Across Test Designs

10:15 Statistical foundations of person parameter estimation in the Thurstonian IRT model for forced-choice and pairwise comparison designs

10:30 Ipsative indices for forced-choice assessments

10:45 A fit index for latent class analysis of dichotomous scale

11:00 What ipsative measures can tell us about the General Factor of Personality

11:15 Optimal Design in Linear Paired Comparisons for Thurstonian IRT models

10:00 → 11:30 Symposium : "Intervention programs evaluation: effect size, moderator variables and methodological quality"

10:00 Convergent-discriminant validity evidence of the Methodological Quality Scale for Observational Methodology: A multitrait-multimethod analysis

10:15 The goodness of fit indexes RMSEA and SRMR using ULS and RULS in Structural Equation Modeling: a review of its cut-off point

10:30 Training program outcomes for mental health professionals: The role of methodological quality, study type, and timing. A meta-analysis

10:45 Risk of bias in clinical psychology meta-analyses (2000-2020): An overview

11:00 Effectiveness of psychoeducation on myositis: Quality of life and well-being

11:15 Validity evidence of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in Chilean patients with chronic kidney disease

10:00 → 11:30 Symposium : "Recent Developments in Meta-Analysis"

10:00 Can We Include Dichotomous Variables in Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling? Mind the Prevalence

10:15 Fitting two-level structural equation models to meta-analytic data

10:30 Reporting Biases Analyses in Psychological Meta-analyses: Current Practices and Robustness of Conclusions

10:45 Comparing Type I error and power rates in meta-regression with multiple effect sizes: A study of analytical approaches

11:00 Correcting for Publication Bias in Moderator Effects: A Simulation Study

11:15 Correcting for publication bias in multivariate and multilevel meta-analysis: A multivariate step function selection model approach

11:30 → 12:00 Poster Session 1: COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS

11:30 Conditions of education and methodological preferences of young researchers - results from preliminary studies

11:40 A Comparative Study of Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling and Structural Equation Modeling in Longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence (APIM) Mediation Analysis

11:40 Comparative Analysis of EEG Acquisition Systems: Neuroscan with EasyCap vs. OpenBCI with Florida Research Cap

11:40 Linking Evidence-Based Architectural Research Methodologies with Medical/Health Sciences: A Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Framework for Infection Prevention in Healthcare Facilities

11:40 Speech Analysis Module: An Open-Source Audio Processing Library for Onset Detection and Stimuli Preparation in Psycholinguistics

11:40 Visual Strategies in Educational Assessment: An Analysis of Eye Movements in Multiple-Choice Item Resolution

11:45 A Cautionary Note on Simulating Multilevel Data

11:45 A quantitative approach to the evaluation of response processes.

11:45 Analysis of the Prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse by Geographical Area.

11:45 Applying Growth Mixture Models to the longitudinal study of depressive symptomatology

11:45 Citation Bias in Ego Depletion Research: A Follow-Up to Hardwicke et al. (2021)

11:45 Deep Learning -Based Approaches for Continuous-Time Dynamical Systems

11:45 Developing a Child-Centered Instrument to Measure School Well-Being in Early Childhood: A Mixed-Methods Approach

11:45 Effect of Physical Activity on Total Gestational Weight Gain, Adherence to IOM 2009 Recommendations, and Incidence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

11:45 Evaluation and intervention in a case of mild cognitive impairment, amnestic subtype

11:45 Interviews in the Digital Age: Comparing Data from Online and Face-to-Face Methods

11:45 Investigating Teacher Candidates' Attitudes Toward Scientific Research: A Methodological Approach

11:45 Longitudinal Stability of Repeated Covariate Equating in High-Stakes Assessments

11:45 Meta-Analysis on the Effectiveness of Psychological Interventions: A Study on Replicability and Reproducibility

11:45 Mindfulness in Psychotherapist Education: Feasibility and Effects on Psychological Well-being

11:45 Multilevel Models in Single-Case Design: A Systematic Review of Existing Research and Gaps

11:45 Reporting of standard deviations and pre-post correlations: implications for effect size estimation in meta-analysis.

11:45 The JD-R Model in Volunteering: A Longitudinal Approach to Estimation and Missing Data Treatment

11:45 Understanding Patterns of Technology Engagement among Students: A Latent Profile Analysis

12:00 → 12:30 OFFICIAL OPENING

12:30 → 13:30 KEY NOTE: Rethinking Measurement for the 21st Century

13:30 → 15:00 LUNCH

15:00 → 16:30 Session 16 : "Mixed methods and Behavior assessment"

15:00 A Mixed-Method Network Analysis Approach for Enhancing the Development of Assessment Instruments and Obtaining Validity Evidence: A Questionnaire to Measure Police Officers Attitudes towards Intervention in Gender-Based Violence

15:15 Assessing moral decision-making through a systematic review of mixed studies: Methodological perspectives for a closer real-world approach

15:30 The value of mixed methods research over the present decade in Psychology: A critique study

15:45 A systematic review and an internal consistency analysis of behavioral habit measures

16:00 The Environmental Decision Task: A new behavioral paradigm for studying the money-environment trade-off

16:15 The advancements in mixed methods research over the present decade as outlined in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research: A scoping review

15:00 → 16:30 Session 7 : "Clustering and classification methods in psychology"

15:00 Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) for Equitable Cluster Randomized Interventions: Design Considerations and Statistical Modeling

15:15 Using the Stochastic Block Model for Clustering in Psychological Networks

15:30 Some Simple Methods for Creating a Pooled Cluster Solution using K-Means Clustering in Multiply Imputed Data

15:45 Clusterwise-IVA: a new method to uncover patient heterogeneity by clustering subjects based on temporal changes in underlying processes

16:00 Method for Sample Size Determination for Cluster Randomised Trials Using the Bayes Factor

16:15 Bayesian Sample Size Determination for Longitudinal Trials with Attrition

15:00 → 16:30 Session 9 : "Psychometric Applications in Health and Wellbeing"

15:00 Intersectional sleep disparities: association between multiple social intersections, perceived neighborhood deprivation and sleep disturbance in Europe

15:15 Decision Tree-Based Adaptive Testing in Psychodiagnostic Screening of multiple mental health conditions

15:30 What do patients and surgeons know and believe about shared decision-making when choosing treatments for colorectal cancer? A qualitative work in progress

15:45 Sex-Based Differential Item Functioning in the Broad Autism Phenotype-International Test

16:00 Proposing an enhanced continous norming approach for non-normal data and nonlinear trends in adapting the WISC-V to the Basque language

16:15 Methodological quality of meta-analyses and systematic reviews on the psychological interventions for breast cancer: An Umbrella Review of Their Effects on Anxiety, Depression, Distress, and Quality of Life

15:00 → 16:30 Symposium : "Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models: Item Development and Validation, Educational Interventions, and Emotion Analysis of Videos"

15:00 Leveraging AI Tutors to Enhance Student Learning: A Controlled Educational Intervention Study

15:20 Generative Psychometrics via AI-GENIE: Automatic Item Generation and Validation via Network-Integrated Evaluation

15:40 Performance-Based Item Development and Validation in Silica: LLMs and Generative Psychometrics for Struc- tural Validity and Item Difficulty

16:00 Decoding Emotion Dynamics in Videos using Dynamic Exploratory Graph Analysis and Zero-Shot Image Classification.

15:00 → 16:30 Symposium : "Innovations in test development and validation"

15:00 Constructing, Improving, and Shortening Tests for Skill Assessment with Competence-based Test Development

15:15 Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM) in Comparison with CFA Models

15:30 Addressing Ordinal Variables through Integrated IRT and CTT Methods in Cultural Capital Measurement

15:45 On the Way to State Specific Response Errors: A Generalized Local Independence Model

16:00 Probabilistic Information and Network Evaluation System (PINES): A Bayesian Framework for Advancing Psychometric Testing

16:30 → 17:00 STATE OF THE ART: AI: Where Are We and Where Are We Going

16:30 → 17:00 STATE OF THE ART: On Transforming Revisited

17:00 → 17:30 Poster Session 2: COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS

17:00 Combining Prolonged Exposure and Compassion-Focused Therapy for PTSD: A Case of Multilevel Analysis for Single-Experimental Case Designs

17:10 Methodological differences between formative-measured and composite variables: a case study using mixed SEM techniques

17:10 Methodological Innovations in Forecasting the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance: Integrating Predictive Modeling, Scenario Analysis and Data-Driven Insights

17:10 Prioritization of socio-political values while developing and implementing driverless mobility: a multi-method, multi-step intercultural research approximation

17:15 A comparison of algorithms for tests of variance components in genetics ACE models

17:15 An Applied Case of Longitudinal Factorial Invariance: data imputation, limitations and suggestions

17:15 An R package for applying meta-analytical procedures under a mixture model approach

17:15 Assessing Bias in Non-Randomized Studies: A Systematic Review of Evaluation Tools

17:15 Bayesian multilevel modeling of visual search trajectories: a simulation study and a hybrid foraging application

17:15 Beyond Classical Random Effects Meta-Analysis: Parametric Variance of the Specific Variance Estimator Under a Mixture Model Framework for Standardized Mean Difference

17:15 Bootstrap-F and adjusted F-tests in split-plot designs: The effect of non-sphericity and heterogeneity on Type I error

17:15 Effectiveness of Online Psychological and Psychoeducational Interventions in Preventing Maternal Perinatal Anxiety: A Preliminary Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

17:15 Enhancing Resilience and Attentional Bias in Previously Bullied University Students with Low Post-Traumatic Growth: A Study on Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

17:15 Exploring the Social Perception of Cyber-Sexual Exploitation: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Reactions toward “Amouranth Case” on X

17:15 Learning patterns and reading comprehension in primary education: a mixed methods approach

17:15 Measuring the dynamic structure of affect using a stepwise exploratory structural equational approach

17:15 Normative data on the execution age of action-related sentences in young and older adults

17:15 Recommended open research data repositories for psychology

17:15 Robustness of repeated measures ANOVA with non-normal data and very small sample size

17:15 SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THROUGH ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF THE VOICE

17:15 USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE IN CONTENT VALIDITY

17:15 Using an alternative technique of multidimensional scaling to compare three perceptual spaces of animal abuse

17:30 → 19:00 Session 13 : "Longitudinal models and Individual variability"

17:30 Longitudinal diagnostic models for small sample size contexts

17:45 A Proposal to Test Approximate Measurement Invariance of Multi-Item Self-Reports Across Intense Longitudinal Assessments

18:00 The Invariance Partial Pruning Approach to The Network Comparison in Longitudinal Data

18:15 Commensurable indicators - finding potentially metric invariant indicators

17:30 → 19:00 Session 17 : "Sampling and Responses in experience sampling studies"

17:30 Prediction Intervals for the Target Sample Size during Information-Based Monitoring

17:45 Tracking micro-minorities: methodological solutions to the challenge of small numbers

18:00 The distracted participant? Experience sampling response behavior and participant burden in social settings

18:15 An extensive evaluation of the stochastic countdown

18:30 Defining ratio effects in randomized controlled trials using a stochastic theory of causal effects

17:30 → 19:00 Session 21 : "Psychometric Innovations and Diagnostic Methodologies"

17:30 Detecting careless and insufficient effort responding: A comparison of attention checks and model-based approaches

17:45 Automated Scoring of Open-Ended Responses: Evaluating LLMs and Prompting Strategies

18:00 Rasch-Based Unidimensional Integration of the Most Widely Used Scales for Assessing Belief in a Just World

18:15 Using Cognitive Diagnostic Models for Criterion-Referenced Standard Setting in Legal Literacy Assessment

18:30 Validation of an Italian work-adapted Technostress Scale for older employees

18:45 Assessing Professionalism in Spanish Healthcare Contexts: Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Profes- sionalism Mini-Evaluation Exercise (P-MEX)

17:30 → 19:00 Symposium : "Research methodologies in social cognition: A measurement approach from the Social Neurosciences."

17:30 A systematic review of interventions designed to reduce alterations in social cognition

17:45 Exploring the Relationship between Fear of Public Speaking, Social Cognition, and Communication Skills in University Students

18:00 Analysis of the factor structure of the Yoni Task instrument for its cross-cultural validation in the Spanish- speaking population

18:15 The Internal Structure of Theory of Mind: Factorial Analysis of Its Evaluation Instruments

18:30 Challenges and limitations in the evaluation of theory of mind in Latin America: Methodological and contex- tual challenges.

17:30 → 19:00 Symposium : "Statistical Learning Approaches to Psychometric Modeling Challenges"

17:30 Regularized Estimation of the Latent Space Item Response Theory Model

17:50 “Factor analysis”of Process Data via Psychology-Informed Variational Recurrent Autoencoders for the Anal- ysis of Critical Online Reasoning

18:10 Variational Autoencoders for Models with Latent Classes

18:30 Automated Essay Scoring Using Generative Artificial Intelligence: Illustration of a Systematic Evaluation Framework

19:00 → 19:30 MUSIC

19:30 → 21:00 INAUGURAL COCKTAIL

Thursday 24 July

08:30 → 10:00 Session 14 : "Dynamic and temporal models in psychology"

08:30 Towards a Clearer Understanding of Causal Estimands: The Importance of Joint Effects in Longitudinal Designs with Time-Varying Treatments

08:45 Investigating heterogeneity in temporal dynamics with a latent variable extension of time-varying coefficient models

09:00 Time-varying continuous-time models: Extending the framework for dynamic parameters that change over time

09:15 An investigation of the temporal dynamics of careless responding across different populations in experience sampling data

09:30 Mapping methodological variation in experience sampling research from design to data analysis: A systematic review

09:45 Beyond 'Accuracy': AI vs. Humans as Raters

08:30 → 10:00 Session 19 : "Advanced statistical models and trust in Science"

08:30 On The Interpretation of Vector Autoregressive Models

08:45 A sequence sensitive model of encoding precision

09:00 Extending MPT Models for Continuous Variables: A Comparison of Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches

09:15 Towards a Global Predictive Model of Trust in Science

09:30 Integrative Pipelines for Preprocessing Mobile Sensing Data

09:45 A family of within-test operation-specific learning models

08:30 → 10:00 Symposium : "Correlation of cognitive variables with brain activity measured by EEG and fRMI"

08:30 Theory of mind and high abilities, EEG analysis

08:45 Emotional Synergy in Music-Color Combinations: A Neurophysiological Study

09:00 Electroencephalography as a Recording Method in Visual Photosensitivity

09:15 Resting-State Brain Activity and Connectivity in Individuals with High Cognitive Abilities

09:30 Study of Brain Activity at Resting State by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in People with High and Low Sensitivity

08:30 → 10:00 Symposium : "Standards and Guidelines for Educational and Psychological Assessment: Continuing the Conversation"

08:30 Difficult Conversations in Revising the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing

08:50 The Role of the New PISA Quality Standards to Promote Fairness

09:10 The Role of the EFPA Board of Assessment in Promoting Testing Standards

09:30 Discussion about Current Standards and Guidelines for Educational and Psychological Assessment

08:30 → 10:00 Symposium : "Understanding, detecting and managing careless responding in survey research."

08:30 Testing the stability of careless responding over time

08:50 Detecting careless and insufficient effort responding: A comparison of attention check and model-based approaches

09:10 Detecting and managing careless and insufficient effort responding: A simulation approach

09:30 Detecting careless responding in ipsative data

10:00 → 11:30 Session 20: "IA y M learning"

10:00 Artificial Intelligence and learning: Contributions to the state of the art in Education

10:15 Machine Learning for Psychological Research: Benchmarking Forecasting Performance of Deep Learning Models for Longitudinal Data

10:30 AI and students learning of Mathematics: A bibliometric study

10:45 Model IA European MathIA Project

11:00 Incorporating longitudinal variability in prediction models: a comparison of machine learning and logistic regression

10:00 → 11:30 Session 3 : "Measurement and Analysis of violence and discrimination"

10:00 Measurement structure and invariance of intimate partner violence against women in lower- and middle-income countries

10:15 Understanding Perceived Vulnerability to Intimate Partner Violence: A Bifactor(S-1) Model Exploring the Role of Sexism and Violence Myths Against Women

10:30 Advancing Quantitative Methodologies to Achieve Equity

10:45 What is a 'resilient' symptom network? Assessing multiple response trajectories to stressful events using network theory

11:00 Investigating Differential Item Functioning of the Reading Comprehension Section of a High-Stakes Test across Booklet and Gender: An Analysis with Recursive Partitioning Rasch Tree

11:15 Enhancing Model Visualization in Statistical Analysis: Introducing the R Package MoPlot

10:00 → 11:30 Session 4 : "Structural equation models and model evaluation"

10:00 Chasing Normal Linear Unicorns -- More Realistic Fit Indices for SEM

10:15 Abandon All Thumbs Ye Who Model: Model Fit Evaluation in SEM for a New Century

10:30 SEMtrees in Longitudinal studies: The utility of goodness-of-fit indices for building theory

10:45 Regularised SEM-Based Out-of-Sample Predictions

11:00 Residual Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling for Analyzing Interindividual Variability in Intensive Data from Factorial Experiments

10:00 → 11:30 Symposium : "Innovative Approaches to Address Validity"

10:00 Building and Validating Culturally Responsive Assessments

10:20 Mapping construct representations: Integrative approaches to Content Validity and Latent structures

10:40 Collecting Validity Evidence Through the Measurement of Eye Movement

11:00 Improving web probing method to obtain validity evidence of response processes by an AI generative app

10:00 → 11:30 Symposium : "Measurement and Machine Learning"

10:00 About the (Non-) Invariance of Sensing Data

10:20 The Impact of Measurement Non-invariance in Target Variables on Machine Learning Prediction

10:40 Addressing Measurement Error in Machine Learning-Assisted Social Science Modeling

11:00 A Machine Learning-Based Workflow for Model Evaluation and Revision in SEM

11:30 → 12:00 Poster Session 3: COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS

11:30 Dilemmas and Methodological Challenges in Research on Older Adults

11:40 An Exploration of R-squared Effect Size Measures in Mediation

11:40 Assessing Fear of Heterosexism: Spanish Adaptation and Validation of a Psychological Measure

11:40 Employing item response theory and factor analysis to purify latent trait estimates

11:40 Psychometric Properties of the Interpersonal Rejection Sensitivity Scale (IRSS) in a Spanish Sample: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Measurement Invariance

11:45 A multilevel Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process with crossed random effects for multivariate time series

11:45 Assessing false recognition with ad hoc categorical, associative and taxonomic lists.

11:45 Coping Flexibility Among Young Adults from Six Countries: Cross-Cultural Validation of the Coping Flexibility Scale (CFS)

11:45 Development and Content Validation of the Advance Care Planning Attitudes Scale for Mental Health: Incorporating Mental Health Service Users’ Perspectives

11:45 Differential item functioning in online health-information seeking measurement

11:45 Effect of Class Imbalance and Multicollinearity on Parameter Estimation in Binary Logistic Regression

11:45 Evaluating assumptions on variance magnitude in repeated measures designs: an empirical evaluation

11:45 Evaluation of competence in dementia care among formal caregivers: Adaptation of the Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff scale (SCIDS) to Spanish

11:45 How to use observable responses and hidden states of recurrent neural networks to reason about cognitive aspects of language?

11:45 Latent Trait-State-Occasions models to analyze state and trait components of Loneliness in European adults and their associations with social contact

11:45 Multiple Imputation of binary outcomes in small sample size scenarios – A comparative study of Predictive Mean Matching and Bayesian Logistic Regression

11:45 Psychometric properties of Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support in Spanish university students

11:45 Purifying the ability from external variables.

11:45 Reevaluating Factor Analysis: Violations of the Reflective Measurement Model and a Proposed Correction for Item Selection Bias.

11:45 Trends in Reliability Induction Practices in Neuropsychology: A Systematic Review

11:45 Type I error of repeated measures ANOVA with non-sphericity and very extreme deviation from normality

11:45 Validation of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) in Mental Health Service Users

12:00 → 12:30 STATE OF ART: The past, present and future of meta-analytic structural equation modeling

12:00 → 12:30 STATE OF THE ART: Big data

12:30 → 13:30 KEY NOTE: Careless Responding in Survey Research: Is There Hope?

13:30 → 15:00 LUNCH

15:00 → 16:30 Session 1 : "Development and validation of psychometric instruments"

15:00 Choose your own PAS? Studying the validity of the Perceptual Awareness Scale

15:15 Exploring the stability and temporal variability of Consideration of Future Consequences (CCF): A Trait-State-Occasion (TSO) model.

15:30 Evidence of the validity of the Cognitive Reserve Scale (CRS, Escala de Reserva Cognitiva, ERC). Cognitive reserve as a protective factor against the risk of violence in youth.

15:45 First steps in the construction of a new item pool to adaptively measure numerical reasoning in university students

16:00 Using confirmatory factor analysis as tool for discriminating between attribute and method effects

16:15 BERO: A New Perspective on the Psychometric Assessment of Socially Aversive Traits

15:00 → 16:30 Session 15 : "Multilevel models and Individual differences"

15:00 Comparing nested multilevel models with the Vuong test

15:15 dMuSCLES: Dynamic Multilevel Synthesis of Cross-Classified Learning Events Scores

15:30 Predicting Intersectional Inequalities Using Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)

15:45 A Multi-Method Approach to Investigating Between-Group Differences in Latent Variables

16:00 semnova: An R Package for Investigating Interindividual Differences in Experimental Effects on Latent Variables

16:15 Pooling Correlation Matrices in Meta-Analysis: Addressing Hierarchical Effect Size Dependencies

15:00 → 16:30 Symposium : "Advances in Investigating Response Behavior"

15:00 The Influence of Time of Day on the Occurrence of Careless and Insufficient Effort Responding

15:15 Real-time detection of unmotivated response behavior in questionnaires - Can immediate feedback influence future response behavior?

15:30 Experimental Validation of Model-Based Identification of Careless and Insufficient Effort Responding

15:45 A Multilevel Mixture Item Response Theory Model for Partial Engagement in Proficiency Tests

16:00 Investigating the interplay of text rereads with IRT parameters: Rereads render hard items easier and easy items harder

16:15 Benefits of Process Data for Evaluating the Differential Effectiveness of App-Based Treatments

15:00 → 16:30 Symposium : "Advancing Dynamic Methods for Modeling Change Over Time"

15:00 Modeling overnight lags in daily emotion dynamics

15:15 Kalman scores for the estimation of planned and unplanned missing individual observations in accelerated longitudinal designs

15:30 State-Space Models for Identifying Abrupt Changes in Cognitive Development

15:45 When Should I Measure? Finding the Best Sampling Schedule for Recovering Longitudinal Dynamics in Panel Data Studies with Continuous-Time Models

15:00 → 16:30 Symposium : "Methodological Advances in Meta-analysis"

15:00 Visualization of heterogeneity in forest plots

15:15 Relationship between repeated measures in clinical psychology studies: an empirical evaluation

15:30 Bias and Mean Squared Error of Six Estimators of the Standardized Mean Change in Pretest-Posttest Designs

15:45 An improved homogeneity test for meta-analysis of standardized mean differences

16:00 Statistical power of random-effects meta-analyses of clinical psychological interventions

16:15 Reliability generalization of the Emotional Quotient Inventory Youth Version (EQ-i: YV): A meta-analytic structural equation modelling approach

16:30 → 17:00 STATE OF THE ART: Dealing with publication bias in a meta-analysis

16:30 → 17:00 STATE OF THE ART: Educational programs evaluation

17:00 → 17:30 Poster Session 4

17:00 Global versus domain-specific scores in the measurement of cognition: A study of the differences in correlations with relevant criteria

17:10 Adaptation and Validation of the the Philosophy of Social Science Inventory (PSSI) in Polish Cultural Context

17:10 An Empirical Network Analysis of the Carnism Structure based on the 4N Scale: Spanish and English Versions

17:10 Application of Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA) to a scale of depressive symptomatology

17:10 Assessing the Performance of the Healthcare Access and Quality Index: A Methodological Challenge in Global Health Metrics

17:10 Bridging Measurement Gaps in Intimate Partner Violence Research: A Full Information Factor Analysis Approach

17:10 Development and Validation of the Sport Causality Orientations Scale (SCOS)

17:10 Location-Scale Models in Meta-Analysis: A Comparison of Analytic Frameworks

17:10 Measurement invariance and latent mean differences across Basque and Spanish versions of the Multidimensional Frailty Scale (MFS)

17:10 Modeling difficulty of listening comprehension items with machine learning

17:10 Network Analysis of the Illness Management and Recovery Scale (IMR) in Individuals with Mental Disorders

17:10 Psychometric properties of the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS): A first study of its longitudinal measurement invariance in the Spanish context

17:10 Psychometric Properties of the Online Version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) for its Use in Spanish Pregnant and Postpartum Women.

17:10 PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE ROSENBERG SELF-ESTEEM SCALE IN PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER

17:10 Psychometric properties of the Scientific Reasoning Scale

17:10 Psychometric validation of the Reported and Intended Behaviour Scale (RIBS) in the Spanish-speaking population

17:10 Response Options in Multiple-Choice Items: Increased Difficulty or Improved Reasoning?

17:10 The 20-item and 10-item Spanish versions of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS): Psychometric properties in a sample of nursing students

17:10 The Madrid Loneliness Questionnaire (MLQ): Development and Validation in the Contemporary Sociocultural Context

17:10 The Workplace Ostracism Scale: A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis

17:10 Using machine learning on multiple true-false item texts to predict the difficulty of best single-answer items: Identifying domain-specific text features beyond readability

17:10 Validation of the Spanish Gaming Transfer Phenomena Scale

17:10 Validation of the Spanish Nijmegen Gender Awareness in Medicine Scale (SN-GAMS) in Clinical Psychology Students

17:15 Addressing Overfactoring in Mixed-Worded Scales: An Exploratory Application of the Random Intercept Item Factor Analysis (RIIFA)

17:30 → 19:00 PLENARY

20:30 → 22:00 DINNER

Friday 25 July

08:30 → 10:00 Session 18 : "Latent factors and errors in psychometric measurement"

08:30 Factor Analysis under multimodal latent distributions: A simulation study

08:45 Initial Attempts to Clean Up the Messy Middle Problem

09:00 Unpacking the Impact of Measurement Error and Outliers on Three-Way Interactions: Evidence from Monte Carlo Simulations with Best-Practice Recommendations

09:15 Added value of subscores: Can we accurately evaluate it?

09:30 Addressing convergence problems in latent variable models

09:45 From Random Effects to Common Factors: Latent Dimensionality Assessment in Experimental Psychology

08:30 → 10:00 Session 22 : "Methodological Quality and Modeling in Behavioral"

08:30 Methodological Quality Profiles in Basketball: A Systematic Review of Studies based on Observational Methodology

08:45 Evaluating Methodological Quality in Football Studies: An Application of the MQSOM

09:00 Preliminary Convergent-Discriminant Validity Evidence of the Methodological Quality Scale for Observational Methodology (MQSOM). A Confirmatory Factor Analysis

09:15 Prior sensitivity analysis in Bayesian SEM and its application in R

09:30 The Response Bias Network: Investigating the Relationship Between Overclaiming Bias, Personality, and Narcissism Under Low- and Simulated High-Stakes Scenarios

08:30 → 10:00 Session 5 : "Bayesian methods in Psychology and Statistics"

08:30 Where Psychometrics Meets Experimental Psychology: Bayesian Hierarchical Factor Models for Response Times

08:45 Exploratory Bayesian Nonparametric Methods in Psychological Sciences

09:00 Estimating Context Effects in Small Samples while Controlling for Covariates: An Optimally Regularized Bayesian Estimator for Multilevel Latent Variable Models

09:15 Extending Bayesian Regularization Methods to Multiple-Group Mediation Analysis

09:30 What Do We Not Know About Small Sample Performance of AR(1) Models?

09:45 Multiple imputation of incomplete non-linear terms, when sample size is extremely small

08:30 → 10:00 Symposium : "Bridging Psychometrics and Artificial Intelligence"

08:30 Optimizing LLM Embeddings for Automatic Item Development and Validation

08:50 Does the result of an in-silica structural validity matches the structural validity computed in human-gathered data?

09:10 How Block Types and Social Desirability Shape Forced-Choice Questionnaire Automatic Assembly

09:30 Predicting Item Response Theory Parameters from the Semantic Space of Computational Language Models

10:00 → 11:30 PANEL: Gender issues in research and methodology

11:30 → 12:00 COFFEE BREAK

12:00 → 13:00 KEY NOTE: The Integrated Mixed Methods Transformation Approach

13:00 → 13:30 IN MEMORIAM SESSION

13:30 → 14:00 CLOSING CEREMONY